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Man Who Plowed Into Officers, DC Employee Indicted

The driver of a truck that police say hit two police officers and a transit worker in Washington, D.C., faces up to 90 years in prison if convicted on all charges. 

Prosecutors said 24-year-old Brandon Figures-Mormon hated police and traveled to the Adams Morgan district from his home in Disputanta, a community near Richmond, Virginia, with the intent of at least hurting an officer. 

The officers were riding their bikes near 18th Street and Columbia Road NWon June 8, 2017, when the white pickup truck crashed into them.

Witnesses told News4 the pickup truck swerved around a WMATA bus and struck the officers.

"We heard an absolute horrifying screech," said Katie Vincentz, who was in a nearby club when the attack happened. 

Vincentz and others quickly ran out onto 18th Street.

"What we saw was just horrifying. There was a police officer who had been thrown pretty much 30 feet," she said.

"The officers ... were yelling at the truck 'Stop!' and the truck wasn't slowing down. The truck was probably going about 50 mph and just hit them," said Michael Matuson, who also witnessed the crash.

A grand jury indicted Figures-Mormon Wednesday on three counts of assault with intent to kill while armed, three counts of aggravated assault while armed, two counts of felony assault on a police officer while armed and other charges.

Figures-Mormon's defense attorney says he lost control of his truck after having a bad reaction to marijuana.

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